I am pretty much a samba newbie. In the past, I have created a share like this without a problem, but my troubleshooting skills with samba are minimal as I have minimal experience. I am trying to create a user share (using the pcguest user) that is wide open to the network. The directory is /var/snd. Network users on Windows can see the folder, but get the general permission denied when trying to access it. I created a share to the /tmp and had NO problems accessing it from the Windows boxes. Then, I changed the smb configuration for the /tmp to point to /var/snd and I still could not access it. Directory permissions are RWXRWXRWX. pcguest is uid 98 gid 99 This has to be obvious to others... but I am not seeing it. smb.conf: workgroup = Rad server string = Rdell hosts allow = 192.168.0. 192.168.10. printcap name = /etc/printcap guest account = pcguest log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 security = user socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 domain master = no dns proxy = no winbind uid = 16777216-33554431 winbind gid = 16777216-33554431 restrict anonymous = no preferred master = no netbios name = Rdell max protocol = NT ldap ssl = No server signing = Auto map to guest = Bad User guest ok = yes force user = pcguest inherit acls = yes case sensitive = no msdfs proxy = no [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no read only = no [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes printable = yes [snd] read only = no path = /var/snd guest only = yes